Quotes with might-have-been

Quotes 1901 till 1920 of 9541.

  • Barbara Coloroso Given the choice, children who don't want for anything will not save... We have an obligation as parents to give our children what they need. What they want we can give them as a special gift, or they can save their money for it.
    Barbara Coloroso
    American author
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  • Barbara Ehrenreich Given the cultural barriers to intersex conversation, the amazing thing is that we would even expect women and men to have anything to say to each other for more than ten minutes at a stretch. The barriers are ancient - perhaps rooted, as some paleontologist may soon discover, in the contrast between the occasional guttural utterances exchanged in male hunting bands and the extended discussions characteristic of female food-gathering groups.
    Barbara Ehrenreich
    American author and political activist (1941 - 2022)
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  • Benoit Mandelbrot Given the profits he and Pharaoh must have made, one might call Joseph the first international arbitrageur.
    The (Mis)Behavior of Markets Ch. 10, p. 201 (A reference to Genesis 41:48–49,
    Benoit Mandelbrot
    Polish-born French and American mathematician and polymath (1924 - 2010)
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  • Carolyn Murphy Giving birth was the most amazing thing I've ever done. I'd been living in a Third World country, and I said, 'I'm going to just squat behind a tree.' I basically did that but in a chair in my living room. I didn't want a sterile hospital room. I didn't want doctors. I had a midwife.
    Carolyn Murphy
    American model and actress (1974 - )
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  • Kofi Annan Globalization is a fact of life. But I believe we have underestimated its fragility.
    Kofi Annan
    Ghanaian diplomat (1938 - 2018)
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  • Bob Brown Globally the Greens have arisen like a spontaneous combustion, a reaction to the narrow-minded state-backed exploitation of resources and wealth for a few at the expense of the many.
    Bob Brown
    Australian politician, medical doctor and environmentalist (1944 - )
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  • John Webster Glories, like glow-worms, afar off shine bright, but looking to near, have neither heat not light.
    John Webster
    English dramatist (1580 - 1634)
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  • Marcus Valerius Martial Glory comes too late, after one as been reduced to ashes.
    Marcus Valerius Martial
    Latin poet and epigrammatist (40 - 104)
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  • Les Brown Goals are not dreamy, pie-in-the-sky ideals. They have every day practical applications and they should be practical.
    Les Brown
    American motivational speaker, author and radio DJ (1945 - )
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  • Denis Waitley Goals provide the energy source that powers our lives. One of the best ways we can get the most from the energy we have is to focus it. That is what goals can do for us; concentrate our energy.
    Denis Waitley
    American motivational speaker, writer and consultant (1933 - )
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  • Elizabeth Barrett Browning God answers sharp and sudden on some prayers and thrust the thing we have prayed for in our face, like a gauntlet with a gift in it.
    Elizabeth Barrett Browning
    English poet (1806 - 1861)
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  • Eli Stanley Jones God doesn't have any grandchildren.
    Eli Stanley Jones
    American missionary and theologian (1884 - 1973)
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  • Dwight L. Moody God doesn't seek for golden vessels, and does not ask for silver ones, but He must have clean ones.
    Dwight L. Moody
    American evangelist (1837 - 1899)
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  • Bede Griffiths God had brought me to my knees and made me acknowledge my own nothingness, and out of that knowledge I had been reborn. I was no longer the centre of my life and therefore I could see God in everything.
    Bede Griffiths
    British-born priest and Benedictine monk (1906 - 1993)
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  • Imamu Amiri Baraka God has been replaced, as he has all over the West, with respectability and air conditioning.
    Imamu Amiri Baraka
    African-American writer of poetry, drama and fiction (1934 - 2014)
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  • Bailee Madison God has just given me such an amazing journey and able to play; it's been so much fun. I'm having a blast!
    Bailee Madison
    American actress (1999 - )
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  • Jeremy Taylor God hath prepared a little coronet or special reward (extraordinary and beside the great crown of all faithful souls) for those who have not defiled themselves with women.
    Jeremy Taylor
    British churchman and writer (1613 - 1667)
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  • Ken Olson God is a humorist. If you have any doubts about it, look in the mirror.
    Ken Olson
    American entrepreneur and engineer (1926 - 2011)
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  • Meister Eckhart God is at home, it's we who have gone out for a walk.
    Meister Eckhart
    German mystic (1260 - 1328)
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  • John Haggai God is concerned with nations, but nations also need to be concerned with God. No nation can have a monopoly on God, but God will bless any nation whose people seek and honor His will as revealed by Christ and declared through the Holy Spirit.
    John Haggai
    American evangelist (1924 - )
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